· Private foundation
Ashton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALPOINTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| TUCSON WILDLIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $4,600 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,600 |
| UNITED WAY OF TUCSON | $4,600 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $4,600 |
| ARIZONA DAILY STAR SPORTMAN'S FUND | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,400 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| PINETOP COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TU NIDITO CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| GOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +39%
- EREL RIO FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +81%
- HSHumane Society of Southern Arizona4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k
- AMAMERIND MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $2k
- 8I88-CRIME INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Volunteers working in the tucson community to help those in need.
Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Golf Association of Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Francis Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Arizona Daily Star Sportsmens Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Bag It ↗
- Who funds 88-CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Francis Shelter ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SABINO CANYON LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Roy H Rogers Foundation Trust · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Haugh Foundation · Ross and Patty McCallister Foundation · You Got This Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ashton Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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